Dark Reading and China.org is reporting that two underground gaming services got so angry with each other that DDOS retaliation caused a temporary internet service outage in at least 3 provinces in China. Gamers are sometimes just too serious about their games.

This shows that cyber warfare is not just for nation states, two underground or unauthorized gaming services in China used a DDOS attack against the national DNS system (DNSPod) as a way to disrupt game play and attract more players to the competing services. Rather than actually going out to get more members, the DNS DDOS attack ended up causing a chain reaction failure of the national DNS infrastructure. (more…)

There is interesting news coming from the hacker underground that hackers are trying to enforce their Intellectual Property when it comes to malware kits.

Much like RIAA, MPAA, BSA, and a host of other groups or companies that are busy trying to enforce their copyright on the software they make malware writers have been trying to do the same thing. The humor part is that in following the examples of RIAA, MPAA et al, they are leaving off as flame wars for a simple reskin and adding of some additional exploits. With money as a motive, these malware kits are in their own right becoming multi-purpose hacking tools, of value not just to the information security community, but to the money motive of hackers as well. (more…)